5.28.2010
5.24.2010
iris garcia, adam wier, eve ekman
(installation dream team from left to right )
(HE) IS RISEN: The Up & Up
A Site-Specific Installation by Adam Wier for the EpiscoDisco
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA , May 22nd, 2010
Formally, '(He) is Risen: The Up & Up' is a meditation, distilling the notion of sacred space down to a simple childhood sheet fort. Held aloft by balloons harnessing the unbreakable will of helium to rise up, a soft echo of soul within skin, the installation is suspended between anchorage to the earth and transcendence to the sky. In contrast to the vastness of Grace Cathedral, designed to inspire awe and evoke the infinite heavens, '(He) is Risen' works its contrary magic through an intimate and human scale, calling us down to earth, focusing our thoughts inward and snapping our attention to the present.
Building on that contrast, scaling down, and immediacy, '(He) is Risen' offers a reflection on meeting the basic need for shelter. Supported by balloons that will eventually wilt (slow), pop (fast),or otherwise fail, the installation's tenuous existence mirrors the current housing crisis and questions our faith in the political and economic systems that we rely on to secure this basic need. Whose stars have we hitched our wagons to, and is our faith in these institutions well placed? '(He) is Risen' suggests that we enact a similar simplification of our notion of shelter, distilling the essence of "home"until it becomes accessible.
Fundamentally, '(He) is Risen: The Up & Up' begs a reassessment and re-balancing, a return.
Asides:
1. The title, '(He) is Risen', is some iffy wordplay about reverential capitalization of pronouns for Deity (He, Thee, etc.) and the element symbol for helium on the periodic table, He. Nerd is the word.
2. '(He) is Risen' contains 3 king-sized bedsheets. Shout out to the Magi.
3. The rest of the bedsheets are Queens. Shout out to San Francisco.
Extra Special Thank Yous to Iris and Eve for making the installation a success. So close...
Maximum Thanks to the good folks down at the 'Disco - The Reverend Bertie P, Eve Ekman, and Jean "The Machine" Cooney.
5.20.2010
EpiscoDisco
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
From 7PM to 10PM
DJ's, Musical Performance, Art
http://www.episcodisco.com/
This month's 'Disco brings you the aerial stylings of Adam Wier, Evan Holm's Image Immersion Machine and an all-star line up of musical acts that includes Daniel Higgs, Barn Owl, Danny Paul Grody and Portraits - all under one gothically vaulted roof
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.869.7817
http://www.gracecathedral.org/
The Art
San Francisco artist and innovator Adam Wier of "Say My Name" fame returns to Grace Cathedral, once again upward bound and in buoyant reflection on what makes a space sacred. With bedsheets and helium balloons Wier hoists fort-like sanctuaries over the labyrinth reminding us that a sacred space can exist in something as tiny as the breath, as large as a cathedral, expansive as an astral vision or something as simple and comforting as immersion in a private and personal place.
Created just for Grace, Oakland artist Evan Holm presents the latest episode of his hi-tech meets low-tech Image Immersion Machine. Built for individual experience, the participant is plunged into a temporary reality through kaleidoscopically interwoven soundscapes and visuals, this time revolving around the narrator Karen McMullen's whispered words on the last moments of her mother's life.
The Music
Root Strata Records presents an epic mountain of a show to EpiscoDisco this month featuring the legendary freak folker Daniel Higgs (former frontman to post-punk Baltimore band Lungfish), the raw-picked acoustic sounds of Danny Paul Grody, hallucinatory electric hummings Barn Owl and the fresh-on-the-scene sounds of San Francisco's Portraits. This line-up kicks off at 7:30pm.
Paradise Now
Theology, music and art all share the aspiration to transcend the borders that language cannot. Paradise Now is a nondenominational curatorial duo that is exploring this commonality by showcasing artists who engage the awe-inspiring space within Grace Cathedral through multi-media installations and performing arts. Paradise Now is Eve Ekman and Jean Cooney.
EpiscoDisco
Recently voted one of 7×7 Magazine's 250 Things To Do In San Francisco Before You Die and anointed "unusual fun" by the SF Chronicle, EpiscoDisco is a monthly event where community congregates to enjoy contemporary art installations, live performance, drinks and DJ'ed music at Grace Cathedral. EpiscoDisco is hosted on one Saturday of each month by Reverend Bertie Pearson and curatorial duo Paradise Now.
5.07.2010
4.20.2010
3.13.2010
3.04.2010
promising: do it to it
GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWOpening Reception
Saturday, March 6th 2010
6-10pm
31 Rausch Street Gallery
31 Rausch Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.552.8708
2.15.2010
GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 6th, 6 - 10pm
31 RAUSCH ST. GALLERY
31 Rausch Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-552-8708
Rambling around the finite physical world, photographer’s visions are bound to cross paths, intersecting across time, space and intent at touchstone subject matter. We've called a group of 20 photographers back to 5 such seminal subject crossroads. A chair, a flower, a window, a tree, and the road; these are subjects we have found our way to, in our own way, on our own way.
“I Got 5 On It” seeks to celebrate the overlapping moments of individual creative trajectories, to examine these common subjects as expressed by a variety of photographers, and to create an opportunity to study photographer’s styles as evidenced across these subjects. Our hope is that by presenting these 5 subjects as captured by a diverse group of photographers side-by-side, we can coax the magical quality of the images, the extra something we’re really getting at, aside from the physical subject, to the fore.
We’re playing with what we have in common to get at what sets us apart.
FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS BY
Adam Wier www.adamwier.com
Amanda Boe www.amandaboe.com
Ashley Taylor www.4blankwalls.com
Ayline Olukman www.aylineolukman.fr
Chris Koperski www.chriskoperski.blogspot.com
Craig Stokle www.craigstokle.com
David Luraschi www.davidluraschi.com
Jeff McElroy www.thedeletedscene.com
Jennilee Marigomen www.jennileemarigomen.com
Jesse Pollock www.unpiano.com
Kurt Manley www.415kurt.blogspot.com
Laura Johnson www.laurajohnsonphoto.com
Mark Wickens www.MarkWickens.com
Mathew Scott www.mathewscott.com
Matthew Shain www.matthewshain.com
Phillip Maisel www.phillipmaisel.com
Yuta Nakajima www.yutanakajima.com
31 Rausch is a nonprofit artspace founded by Chris McCaw ( www.chrismccaw.com ) in 2005. It is a hallway. Big show, little space. Pile it up, pack it in. "I Got 5 On It" is co-curated by San Francisco-based photographers Amanda Boe, Chris Koperski, and Adam Wier.
12.10.2009
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